284012 - Entering a non-Latin character keyword in address bar submits punycode to Google and not the unicode.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283992

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/0.8 StumbleUpon/1.996 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/0.8 StumbleUpon/1.996 (ax)

Entering a search term with international characters will submit the punycode to
Google as the search term instead (for example:  Entering "日本語" will have
Google search for "xn--wgv71a119e" and Firefox will navigate to the first search
result for the punycode search term instead of the unicode search term).  This
seems to be a result of the version 1.0.1 security fix in which the address bar
now displays punycode instead of the original unicode.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Enter into the address bar any non-Latin character search keyword (for
example: "日本語")
2.  Press 'Enter' and note the page that Firefox has navigated to.
3.  Go to http://www.google.com and search for the same keyword as in step #1.
4.  Note the first resulting page of the search.

Actual Results:  
Step #2 did not navigate to the first Google search result for the given keyword
- instead, it naviagated to the first Google search result for the keyword's
punycode equivalent.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have submitted the original unicode to the Google search engine,
and not the punycode equivalent.

Comment 1

[Jungshik Shin]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283992 ***